With the Big Four's Foreign Ministers bogged down in deadlocks at Paris last week, Jimmy Byrnes leaned forward in his armchair. He eyed the pile of papers before him on the green-topped table and waved aside the conflicts they contained. "Gentlemen," he smiled, "it appears that we all feel we cannot trust each other on small problems. Let us see if we cannot trust each other on big ones."
The Secretary of State then broke a 149-year U.S. tradition against entangling alliances, urged a 25-year renewable Big Four treaty to "insure that the total disarmament and demilitarization of Germany will be enforced...
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